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Autopen-Gate begins as White House Opens Probe plus Are Illegal Immigrants Getting Benefits in New York? · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And yet we heard from White House aid near A
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  Speaker 1: Tannan reportedly testifying she had no idea who in Biden's
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  Speaker 1: inner circle gave her permission to use the autopen. If
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  Speaker 1: there is this underlying plot to hide Biden's mental condition
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  Speaker 1: so that others could arrogate his power in that way,
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  Speaker 1: that's a conspiracy crime. So it's no wonder two people
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  Speaker 1: who already taken the fifth.
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  Speaker 3: Good Thursday morning. It's so nice to have you with
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  Speaker 3: us on the forty seven Morning Update, and we've got
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  Speaker 3: some really big breaking news. Representative James Comer now explaining
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  Speaker 3: exactly what's at stake in the investigation to Biden's autopen use.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, the White House is now opening an investigation
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  Speaker 3: into that autopen, who was using it and did Joe
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  Speaker 3: Biden even know it was happening. Also, you may have
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  Speaker 3: heard the big lie Democrats saying that illegal immigrants are
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  Speaker 3: not on Medicaid. Well, Representative Wesley Hunt is now asking
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  Speaker 3: Morning Update and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 3: It is official. The White House now confirming they are
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  Speaker 3: opening the autopen Biden investigation. Yes, you can smile. We
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  Speaker 3: may actually get some answers about just how bad the
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  Speaker 3: cognitive decline of Joe Biden was and who was actually
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  Speaker 3: running the White House. It was clearly an auto pen,
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  Speaker 3: and somebody was directing that autopen to do things and
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  Speaker 3: sign things and give out pardons, and it wasn't the
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  Speaker 3: sitting President Joe Biden. The White House Council's Office has
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  Speaker 3: officially opened this investigation on former President Joe Biden's White
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  Speaker 3: House abuse of the presidential autopen to sign those pardons,
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  Speaker 3: executive orders, and other laws and actions, potentially without the
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  Speaker 3: former president's knowledge. This is, in my opinion, one of
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  Speaker 3: the biggest political scandals in all of American history. Sources
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  Speaker 3: confirming the opening of the investigation within the Trump White
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  Speaker 3: House and the Press Secretary Caroline Levitt issued a statement
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  Speaker 3: that the administration is quote committed to finding the answers.
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  Speaker 3: Joe Biden was the worst, the most incompetent, and se
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  Speaker 3: now president in our country's history, is what Caroline Levitt
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  Speaker 3: wrote in a statement responding to the press request for
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  Speaker 3: a comment. It has been widely reported that Joe Biden
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  Speaker 3: handed the power of the presidency to an auto pen
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  Speaker 3: that was controlled by unelected leftist staffers who were allowed
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  Speaker 3: to make terrible decisions that destroyed our country. Trump White
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  Speaker 3: House is committed to finding the answers to many outstanding
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  Speaker 3: questions the American people still have about how business in
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  Speaker 3: the Biden White House was conducted. Levitt's statement added President
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  Speaker 3: Trump also had something to say at the White House
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  Speaker 3: in an unrelated sitting in the Oval Office. Here's what
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  Speaker 3: he had to say about this scandal as well.
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  Speaker 4: Whoever operated the autopen had a policy which is by
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  Speaker 4: the way, I think the biggest scandal, that's the scandal
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  Speaker 4: should be talking about, not Jeffrey Epstein. The scandle you
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  Speaker 4: should be talking about is the AUTOPEN, because I think
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  Speaker 4: it's the biggest scandal, one of them in American history.
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  Speaker 3: Now, let's talk about what the investigation is going to
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  Speaker 3: look like. I'm being told that this investigation will include
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  Speaker 3: the review of tens of thousands of documents turned over
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  Speaker 3: to the National Archives as well as Records Administration, and
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  Speaker 3: those documents, as The New York Times first reported early
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  Speaker 3: over the weekend, will potentially provide direct evidence of whether
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  Speaker 3: Biden was aware of the actions that were being signed
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  Speaker 3: by the AUTOPEN that would be his signature. Now, Biden
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  Speaker 3: potentially absolved as senior officials that acted on his behalf
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  Speaker 3: by autopen by telling The Times in a blanket statement
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  Speaker 3: that could whitewash complicity, saying, quote, I conscientiously made all
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  Speaker 3: those decisions, is what Biden's staff said to The Times.
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  Speaker 3: I made every decision quote unquote is Biden's quote. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the American people, you can decide to believe Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 3: But I think it's pretty clear that White House is
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  Speaker 3: not going to take the former president at his word.
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  Speaker 3: Which brings me to another story, a very important one
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  Speaker 3: as well. There's a guy by the name of Anthony Bernal.
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  Speaker 3: He is the former chief of staff for the First
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  Speaker 3: Lady Joe Biden often dubbed her work husband. He was
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  Speaker 3: before Congress and invoked his Fifth Amendment right during a
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  Speaker 3: deposition by the House Oversite Committee. Fact he refused to
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  Speaker 3: answer any questions related President Joe Biden's cognitive fitness, whether
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  Speaker 3: he was ever asked to lie about the president's health
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  Speaker 3: or about the use of the presidential auto pen. Now
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  Speaker 3: he is the second former aide to do so, following
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  Speaker 3: the president's physician, doctor Kevin O'Connor. Oversight Committee chairman James
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  Speaker 3: Comer emphasized the seriousness of this refusal, saying it raises
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  Speaker 3: concern barns that unelected staff may have assumed presidential level
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  Speaker 3: decision making responsibilities. Now, doctor Kevin O'Connor, who also pled
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  Speaker 3: the fifth Biden's longtime White House physician, invoked it the
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  Speaker 3: same way at a closed door deposition before the same committee.
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  Speaker 3: The committee pressed him on whether he was ever instructed
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  Speaker 3: to misrepresent Biden's health or believe the president to be
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  Speaker 3: unfit to serve. He would not answer that question. Now,
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  Speaker 3: Republicans have obviously highlighted this as an extraordinary cover up
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  Speaker 3: and suggestive of a concealed cover up that was planned
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  Speaker 3: by top level people in the White House. The Democrats
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  Speaker 3: would have been involved, and the doctor's legal team stress
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  Speaker 3: that exercising the right does not imply wrongdoing. It simply
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  Speaker 3: protects self incrimination. So here's the bigger picture. The House
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  Speaker 3: Oversight Committee, led by James Comer, is actively investigating the
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  Speaker 3: allegations that Biden's health issues were so secretive, we're so
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  Speaker 3: concealed that aids may have used the autopen to sign
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  Speaker 3: official documents, possibly circumventing presidential authority, and they may have
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  Speaker 3: signed documents that Joe Biden never intended to sign, didn't
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  Speaker 3: even know existed and invoke policy decisions that he didn't
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  Speaker 3: even know about. Representative Jasmine Crockett, Democrat from Texas, a
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  Speaker 3: Committee Democrat, has defended President Biden, asserting that occasional verbal
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  Speaker 3: missteps are not quote, evidence of cognitive failure. The investigation
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  Speaker 3: into Biden's cognitive fitness and potential misuse of the autopen
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  Speaker 3: is clearly intensifying, with Bernald and O'Connor both invoking their
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  Speaker 3: Fifth Amendment rights. House Republicans view this as evidence of
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  Speaker 3: internal concealment, while Democrats are maintaining the lie, saying this
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  Speaker 3: is no big deal at all and it doesn't prove
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  Speaker 3: any wrongdoing. Now, at the end of the day, this
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  Speaker 3: is going to come down to what the White House finds,
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  Speaker 3: what they see in the records, and I wouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: shocked to see more people vote to fit the amendment
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  Speaker 3: so they don't incriminate themselves or lie under oath to Congress.
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  Speaker 2: Now, story number two, there has.
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  Speaker 3: Been a question that many Republicans have been asking how
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  Speaker 3: many illegal immigrants are actually receiving access to Medicaid benefits. Now,
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  Speaker 3: if you ask the Democratic Party, they will tell you
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  Speaker 3: that there isn't a single illegal immigrant that is receiving
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  Speaker 3: Medicaid benefits Insert a brilliant move by Texas Representative Wesley Hunt.
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  Speaker 3: He's now demanding data from the New York governor over
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  Speaker 3: how many of the states estimated six hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 3: thousand legal immigrants are actually receiving access to those Medicaid
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  Speaker 3: benefits that Democrats say, well, it's not happening at all. Hunt,
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  Speaker 3: a Republican, decided to just straight up ask the question
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  Speaker 3: directly to the governor on Monday, raising questions about how
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  Speaker 3: the Empire State has leveraged waivers to actually allow its
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  Speaker 3: Medicaid program to oper differently from federal standards and mandates.
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  Speaker 3: Governor Hochel is required to report this information to the
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  Speaker 3: federal government. So the question is simple, will she comply
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  Speaker 3: or containue to harbor lawbreakers while putting the healthcare of
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  Speaker 3: law abiding citizens at risk? Hunt said in his statement
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  Speaker 3: to the New York Posts. This is what democratic leadership
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  Speaker 3: looks like, open borders, benefits for illegal aliens, and betrayal
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  Speaker 3: of the people they're supposed to be representing. The American people. Now,
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  Speaker 3: there is an estimated one point four million people quote
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  Speaker 3: whose citizenship, nationality, or satisfactory. Immigration status is not quote verified,
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  Speaker 3: and they are potentially being covered by Medicaid programs in
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  Speaker 3: various states that coming now from the Congressional Budget Office.
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  Speaker 3: I'll have more on that in a moment. But one
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  Speaker 3: study from the liberal leaning Fists Policy Institute, cited by
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  Speaker 3: Congressman Hunt, found that there are some six hundred and
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  Speaker 3: seventy thousand illegal immigrants in the Empire State. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: it is now about five percent of the population. New
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  Speaker 3: York has benefited from Section one one one five waivers,
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  Speaker 3: which allows it to experiment and deviate from federal standards
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  Speaker 3: in its implementation of Medicaid, a program that provides health
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  Speaker 3: insurance to seventy million low income Americans, and now the
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  Speaker 3: question is how many illegals. A spokesperson for the governor
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  Speaker 3: quickly fired back a Congressman Hunt and argued that he
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  Speaker 3: should have focused on opposing the One Big Beautiful Bill
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  Speaker 3: Act over its Medicaid reforms instead of targeting New York,
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  Speaker 3: saying this, if Representative Hunt were truly concerned about the
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  Speaker 3: health and well being of his constituents, he should have
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  Speaker 3: directed his focus to voting against the ugly bill, which
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  Speaker 3: will invoke irreparable damage to Medicaid programs nationwide, including in
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  Speaker 3: his home state of Texas. Yet again, you may notice
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  Speaker 3: that the spokesperson for the governor did not answer the
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  Speaker 3: question how many illegal immigrants are receiving benefits? This is
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  Speaker 3: just another pitiful attempt. The governor's office went on to
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  Speaker 3: say to divert attention from Republican actions to eliminate healthcare
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  Speaker 3: for one point five million New Yorkers and deny food
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  Speaker 3: security access to millions of seniors and children. You'll notice
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  Speaker 3: in that statement, yet again the governor New York refusing
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  Speaker 3: to answer the question how many illegal immigrants are taking
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  Speaker 3: government benefits. Now, state officials have told the New York
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  Speaker 3: Post that, quote, most undocumented individuals are not eligible for
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  Speaker 3: full medicaid coverage. Now notice the words they used, most
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  Speaker 3: undocumented individuals are not eligible for quote full medicaid coverage.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, that statement would also be true for
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  Speaker 3: most American citizens are not eligible for full Medicaid coverage,
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  Speaker 3: and that the small group that is enrolled in the
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  Speaker 3: state's program has not benefited they claim from federal dollars. Now,
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  Speaker 3: New York also claimed that spending was unrelated to the
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  Speaker 3: one one one five waivers. Well then, why would the
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  Speaker 3: Governor New York not answer this simple question that was
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  Speaker 3: put to her by Wesley Hunt. Now. Hunt noted that
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  Speaker 3: the Biden administration had rejected the use of those waivers
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  Speaker 3: for states like South Carolina, Arizona, and other states. The
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  Speaker 3: Texas Republican stress that the waivers were not intended to
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  Speaker 3: allow illegal immigrants to benefit American tax dollars going for
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  Speaker 3: their healthcare coverage. Now, the Biden administration allowed and even
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  Speaker 3: encouraged the use of these one one, one five waivers
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  Speaker 3: to extend Medicaid to undocumented immigrants, something that Democrats are
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  Speaker 3: now never happened and despite federal law actually prohibiting them
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  Speaker 3: from receiving these benefits, Hunt wrote in a letter to
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  Speaker 3: Hochel on Monday. Now. Back in February, President Trump also
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  Speaker 3: signed an executive order the Director's Administration to ensure and
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  Speaker 3: a maximum extent possible, that quote no taxpayer funded benefits
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  Speaker 3: go to unqualified aliens. That order pointed to existing law,
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  Speaker 3: such as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
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  Speaker 3: of nineteen ninety six, which generally blocks illegal immigrants from
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  Speaker 3: getting federal benefits from taxpayers. The Texas Republican also cited
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  Speaker 3: concerns about New York's green light law, which permits all
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  Speaker 3: state residents, regardless of immigration status, to get driver's licenses.
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  Speaker 3: Now the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against that law,
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  Speaker 3: arguing that a handstring's federal enforcement of immigration law. Hunt
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  Speaker 3: argued it can help illegal immigrants get access to tax
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  Speaker 3: payer funded BIS benefits using the driver's license to gain
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  Speaker 3: that access, and to address these concerns, Hunt now demanded
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  Speaker 3: that HOCHE will conduct a review of its Medicaid enrollment
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  Speaker 3: base on Social Security numbers and release those findings to
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  Speaker 3: the public, saying this New Yorkers deserve transparency, accountability, and
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  Speaker 3: adherence to law in the administration of public health programs.
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  Speaker 3: Policies to divert limited resources away from lawful recipients American
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  Speaker 3: citizens not only violates federal standards, they also destroy public
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  Speaker 3: trust and threaten the sustainability of programs designed to serve
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  Speaker 3: our most vulnerable American citizens.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Hunt has also drawn speculation over recent weeks that he
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  Speaker 3: may vie for Senator John Cornyn's seat in the Senate
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  Speaker 3: in Texas in the twenty twenty six midterms, and this
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  Speaker 3: could very well be one of those points that he
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  Speaker 3: would campaign on. Now, let me say one other thing
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  Speaker 3: about this. We deserve answers. The American people, as taxpayers,
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  Speaker 3: deserve to know where their money is going and if
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  Speaker 3: it is being diverted to six hundred and seventy thousand
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  Speaker 3: illegal immigrants in the Empire state, Yes, about four and
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  Speaker 3: a half percent of its population. One other thing that
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  Speaker 3: I think is also a point that needs to be made.
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  Speaker 3: You notice that Democrats did not deny in any of
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  Speaker 3: the statements coming from the governor's office that illegal immigrants
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  Speaker 3: are receiving benefits, and they word it carefully to say, well,
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  Speaker 3: some may, but most aren't, and most aren't receiving full benefits. Well,
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  Speaker 3: that also goes for the same with the Americans's in
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  Speaker 3: base that are eligible for Medicaid benefits as well. It
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  Speaker 3: is supposed to help the weakest, the least, the poorest,
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  Speaker 3: and those that are the most in need. Yet many
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  Speaker 3: Americans do not qualify for full benefits. So why are
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  Speaker 3: we giving those benefits to illegal immigrants? That's the question
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  Speaker 3: every American should be asking.
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